Change-delivery device.



PATBNTED JUNE 27, 1905.

D. M. GLAPP. CHANGE DELIVERY DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1,1904.

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@WMTM UNITED STATES Patented June 27, 1905.

DWIGHT M. OLAPP, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHANGE-DELIVERY DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 793,416, dated June 27,1905.

Application filed November 1, 1904:. Serial No. 230,919-

To all 1071 0111, it may concern:

Be it known that I, DWIGHT M. OLAPP, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts,have invented a certain new and useful I mprovement in Change-DeliveryDevices, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention has for its object an improvement in change-deliverydevices; and it consists in the peculiar features of construction andarrangement, which will be clearly understood from the followingdescription and the accompanying drawings. The novel features thereofare pointed out and clearly defined in the claims at the close of thisspecification.

It frequently happens that considerable delay occurs at ticket-windowsor other places where purchases are made or change given by reason ofthe purchasers being obliged to pick up from the change counter or shelfa number of small coins. If. the person wears a glove, the difIiculty ofpicking up the coins is frequently quite considerable and increases thedelay. If there is a number of people waiting their turn at the windowor, changecounter, the delay which frequently results is a source ofvery considerable inconvenience. Objection is also made by many tobringing their fingers or gloves into contact with a change-deliverycounter, which is used by those whose hands or lingers are contaminatedor diseased and upon which coins are constantly being placed, which arefrequently in themselves sources ofcontamination and serve to spreaddisease. The contamination of the counter may be transferred to thehands of a person taking change from the counter.

My invention chiefly has for its object to reduce the delay indelivering change to a minimum, while at the same time avoiding whollyor in part the objections above enumerated.

1n the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a common form of eashierswindow, such as is used in railway stations and similar places wheretickets or the like are purchased and change delivered. Fig. 2 is avertical section of a change-counter with my invention applied thereto,the device being shown in its closed position. Fig. 3 is a similar Viewshowing the device in its open position, and the coins falling into thehands of the owner or person taking the change.

Having reference to the drawings, 1 designates the cashiers booth; 2,the window; 3, the opening of usual form at the lower edge of the windowthrough which the change is passed out to the purchaser; L, the shelf orcounter upon which the change rests and from which it is picked up bythe purchaser.

In applying my invention the counter 4 is provided with an obliqueflaring passage 5, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) which opens at 6 on the uppersurface of the counter 4, and preferably inside the window 2, where itmay be conveniently reached by the cashier or person making the changeto facilitate his placing the change in the said opening 6. The passage5 should be inclined sufliciently to insure coins which are given inchange dropping downwardly to the lower end of the said passage, asshown, Fig. 2. The lower end of the passage 5 is normally closed by therear side or wall 7 of a vertically-movable chute 8, which is fitted torise and fall within a vertieal opening 9, made in the counter 4 toreceive the said chute 8. The downward movement of the chute 8 islimited, preferably, by a stop 19 of common form, which travels in aguideway 10 in the side of the opening .9,

while the upward movement of the said chute 8 is limited by contact ofthe upper end of the chute with the top of the opening 9.

In the form of my device shown in the drawings I have represented thecounter t as being covered on its upper surface with a glass plate 11,which, although not essential to my invention, as will be clear, is adesirable feature of the embodiment of my invention shown, since itaffords a practical and satisfactory surface for such a counter or shelfand in connection with my device affords the person taking the change anopportunity to see the passage of the change into the chute 8 and itsdelivery into his hand, the top of the chute 8 being open. The glassplate 11 in that embodiment of my invention shown forms the top of thechamber or opening 9, in which the chute 8 is held and within which itis moved vertically in the operation of my device. The upward movementof the chute 8 may obviously be limited by limiting the upward movementof the stop-pin 19 in a manner similar to that in which its downwardmovement is limited, as shown, Fig. 2.

The change represented at 12, Fig. 2, having been placed in the opening6 by the cashier or person giving the change, it will at once fall tothe lower end of the passage 5, as shown, Fig. 2, and will be retainedthere by the rear wall 7 of the chute 8, which closes the lower end ofthe passage 5. The person taking the change places his hand underneaththe end of the chute 8, as shown, Fig. 3, and raises the chute, therebycausing the opening 14 in the rear wall 7 of the chute 8 to registerwith the lower end of the passage ,5. As soon as this is done the coins12 will fall by gravity through the chute 8 into the hand of the personto whom the change is to be delivered. As will be clear, tickets, smallarticies, and the like may be delivered through the device with the coinshould that be desirable.

The device may be readily applied, is inexpenslve 1n construction,positlve and accurate in operation, and not likely to get out of order.

As will be clear, the portion 15 of the counter may be wholly orpartially cut away or removed, and the upper portion 16 of the chute maybe formed of glass or transparent material, thus making it possible forthe party receiving the change to see that his change is in the passage5 ready for delivery to him. As will be clear, however, the materialsemployed in the construction of my device may be varied withoutdeparting from my invention.

The chute 8, through which the change is delivered into the hand of theperson taking it, is shown in the drawings as placed vertically and hasbeen so described herein. It will be clear, however, that the chute 8may occupy an inclined position relatively to the counter or shelf 1without departing from my invention. It will be noted that the chute 8is the only movable portion of the device and that it is in operationmoved upwardly by pressure of the hand of the person taking the changeand drops into its normal or lowermost position by gravity when thepressure of the hand is removed. The chute may, however, be inclined inposition relatively to the counter 4 without departing from my inventionsolong as it is not given such an inclined position as will prevent itfrom falling back by gravity when the pressure of the hand is removed.

Below the lower or delivery end of the chute 8 I preferably place ashelf 17, (see Fig. 1,)

which may be secured to the wall of the booth 1 or supported in anyother convenient manner. The said shelf 17 is preferably provided with araised edge or ledge 18, and the top 20 of the shelf may be of rubberhaving slight projections upon it, or it may be made in any otherwell-known manner to render it easy for a coin to be picked up from itssurface. The shelf 17 serves to catch and hold any coin which mightaccidentally be dropped from the hand of the person to whom change wasbeing delivered by the chute 8 and to prevent said coin from falling tothe floor.

What I claim is 1. A change-delivery device comprising a counter havinga change-receiving passage therein, an axially-movable part operatingwhen in its normal position to close the end of the change-receivingpassage, and when out of its normal position to open the end of saidpassage and permit the change to be discharged therefrom.

2. A change-delivery device comprising a counter having achange-receiving passage therein, an axially-movable part operating whenin its iowermost position to close the end of the change-receivingpassage, and when in its raised position to open the end of said passageand permit the change to be discharged therefrom.

3. A change-delivery device comprising a counter having achange-receiving passage therein, an axially-movable chute having anopening in the side thereof registering with the delivery end of thesaid change-receiving passage when the movable chute is raised wherebythe contents of the said passage may be discharged into and through thesaid chute.

4. A change-delivery device comprising a counter having achange-receiving passage therein, an axially-movable chute normally heldin its lowermost position by gravity, and operating when in thisposition to close the delivery end of the said passage, and when in itsraised position to open the end of said passage, and permit the changeto be discharged therefrom, and a stop limiting the range of movement ofthe said chute.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DWIGHT M. CLAPP.

Witnesses:

WM. A. MACLEOD, GEORGE P. DIKE.

